James MOORE was born in 1780 in County Tyrone, Ulster, N. Ireland. was buried in Congressional Cem., Washington, DC. James married Margaret LOWRY.

I received this 3/00:

I have an alternate date for the death of Margaret Lowry as November 07, 1829, and a tough-to-read photo of her gravesite in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC. I may or may not have a tin-type of her or her painted portrait; I and some Moore descendants (the owners) are busy trying to identify them. I have another descendant relative in the Laurel, MD area who is going to re-photograph Congressional for me.

Margaret's husband was James Moore, b. 1780 County Tyrone, Ulster, N. Ireland. He was Ulster-Scots (or Scotch-Irish), immigration unknown so far, but appearing in DC as early as 1801. He worked for the US Treasury, which accounts for the burials in Congressional. I think maybe he was a forgery analyst, owing to the fact that his profession was as printer and engraver.Ms. Lowry Day

Margaret LOWRY [Parents][scrapbook] was born on 23 Oct 1779. She died on 27 Oct 1829 and was buried in Congressional Cem., Washington, DC. Margaret married James MOORE.

I received this photo 3/00 with these notes:

John, this is the Gravestone of Margaret Lowry, daughter of John Lowry and Elizabeth. She is in the re-located Moore plot which is now directly behind the groundskeeper's house in the Congressional Cemetery, Washington, DC. The stone looks like old slate which was in keeping with the times, and getting harder to read every day. The text is, "In memory of Margaret, consort of James Moore who departed this life November 07, 1829, aged 51 years and 15 days."

I have an alternate date for the death of Margaret Lowry as November 07, 1829. I may or may not have a tin-type of her or her painted portrait; I and some Moore descendants (the owners) are busy trying to identify them. I have another descendant relative in the Laurel, MD area who is going to re-photograph Congressional for me.

Margaret's husband was James Moore, b. 1780 County Tyrone, Ulster, N. Ireland. He was Ulster-Scots (or Scotch-Irish), immigration unknown so far, but appearing in DC as early as 1801. He worked for the US Treasury, which accounts for the burials in Congressional. I think maybe he was a forgery analyst, owing to the fact that his profession was as printer and engraver.

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According to family notes, printer James Moore arrived in the States alone sometime before his appearance in DC in 1801, and then later "sent for" his Mother and Sisters. Some notes also say "Wife" along with this. As I have said elsewhere Lowrys and Moores in county Tyrone were neighbors, and the Lowrys in the area and other eastern parts of Ulster and southeasterly Ireland all seem to have roots in the Irish/English Lowry-Corry (Belmore) estates. In keeping with this is an old IGI received from Moore descendant Veda Evelyn Moore who has spent many hours at her local LDS Family History Center. The IGI printout is dated Oct. 25, 1990:

Cumberland is the ancestral home of the Earls of Belmore, and note the Christening year. Hmmm...

Another story by kin that leads me toward the above background is one put forth by Great-granddaughter Lillian Lowry Bellows. In a letter she alludes to a kind of "Romeo and Juliet" scenario for James Moore and Margaret Lowry. She states that the Lowry and Moore neighbors were "feuding" families and that James and Margaret may have married on the sly. This is plausible if one considers the possible backgrounds. James Moore was Scots-Irish of strong Covenant dissenter ancestry, to the tune of 20 generations going back into Scotland. Margaret Lowry, if connected to the Belmore lines, would have been out of "party lines," ergo Loyalist Irish/English. Chances are neither family would have looked on their union with favor, and the story would support a reason for why they came, (alone) to post-Revolutionary USA.

Lowry Day

John Marshall YATES [Parents] was born on 29 Jul 1796 in , , Virginia. He died on 12 Nov 1872 in , , Missouri. John married Elizabeth TERRILL after 1841.

Believed to be the same John Marshall Yates who m. Virginia Christian (born 22 May 1800, died 1841 after giving him 12 children). A note in another source says that John Yates was the "ancestor of Weechie (Yates) Estill, a Terrill historian who supplied data for book by Inez Doshier". Source #1830 says that the last child of Va. Christian was b. 1841 (she died in childbirth?) and was named William Viley (Wiley?) Yates. Notes are unclear, but it appears that it indicates that John had 8 more children by his second wife Eliz. Terrill (Parker).

The following from newspaper may be his grandson:

Kinzer, James William -- d. 22 Mar 1880, aged 25y, at Red Bluff, Contra Costa Co., (CA I think), struck in the temple by a baseball in a game, b. Rand. Co, g-son of the late John M. Yates & nepher of the late John Kinzer, sister Mrs William Dukes lives near Martinez, James was a saddler by trade; THH 15 Apr 1880

I received this in 4/99, which was quite helpful and I added children:

Noted your ref. to John Marshall Yates and his wife Virginia Christian. According to my research their daughter Sarah Elizabeth, born 1833 (stated in her book of poems; 1850 census states her birth as 1840 in Clinton Twn in Randolph Co. MO) married George Washington Hunt. Sarah Elizabeth was a well known poet and I have a book of her poems which will go to the Huntsville Historical Society. She was a member of the Mt Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church near Darksville, MO estab. in 1852. Her 3 brothers fought in the Confederate Army - Dr. Paul Christian Yates, Dr. Willie Viley Yates, Robert Arthur (killed at Kennesaw Mt. Georgia, June 27, 1864. Her sisters were Virginia Yates McCanne, Ann Mary Yates Kinser, eldest sister, who went to CA in 1849 & died there during the Cholera epidemic. Her cousin Reuben Yates, (brother of Gov Richard Yates of ILL) was killed at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.

Veda

Believed to be the same John Marshall Yates who m. Virginia Christian (born 22 May 1800, died 1841 after giving him 12 children). A note in another source says that John Yates was the "ancestor of Weechie (Yates) Estill, a Terrill historian who supplied data for book by Inez Doshier". Source #1830 says that the last child of Va. Christian was b. 1841 (she died in childbirth?) and was named William Viley (Wiley?) Yates. Notes are unclear, but it appears that it indicates that John had 8 more children by his second wife Eliz. Terrill (Parker).

The following from newspaper may be his grandson:

Kinzer, James William -- d. 22 Mar 1880, aged 25y, at Red Bluff, Contra Costa Co., (CA I think), struck in the temple by a baseball in a game, b. Rand. Co, g-son of the late John M. Yates & nepher of the late John Kinzer, sister Mrs William Dukes lives near Martinez, James was a saddler by trade; THH 15 Apr 1880

I received this in 4/99, which was quite helpful and I added children:

Noted your ref. to John Marshall Yates and his wife Virginia Christian. According to my research their daughter Sarah Elizabeth, born 1833(stated in her book of poems; 1850 census states her birth as 1840 in Clinton Twn in Randolph Co. MO) married George Washington Hunt. Sarah Elizabeth was a well known poet and I have a book of her poems which will go to the Huntsville Historical Society. She was a member of the Mt Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church near Darksville, MO estab. in 1852. Her 3 brothers fought in the Confederate Army - Dr. Paul Christian Yates, Dr. Willie Viley Yates, Robert Arthur (killed at Kennesaw Mt. Georgia, June 27, 1864. Her sisters were Virginia Yates McCanne, Ann Mary Yates Kinser, eldest sister, who went to CA in 1849 & died there during the Cholera epidemic. Her cousin Reuben Yates, (brother of Gov Richard Yates of ILL) was killed at the battle of Prairie Grove, Arkansas.Veda

-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=After pondering on it for a while, I concluded that William Finks must bethe son of Andrew and Sarah (--?--) Finks and grandson of Mark and Elizabeth (--?--) Finks, the putative immigrants.

I think this is also the William Finks who married 9 Dec. 1818 in MadisonCo. Ann Banks. The marriage record indicates they were widower & widow.

(I have a vague recollection that William Finks is living in 1850 in the household of his married daughter, Louisa J. (Finks) Banks, but for somereason am having trouble finding the record. Perhaps I just imagined it.)

>From these census records, William Finks had to have been born between 1775 and 1784. With those dates, he could not have been later than the third generation. Mark and Elizabeth (--?--) Finks had four sons: Mark, Jr.,Andrew, John and James. I have not found any evidence indicating Jamesmarried or had children. The children of Mark, Jr. are known from the Garr genealogy (though it is possible the list there is not completely accurate). That leaves Andrew and John. John and his known children seems to havelived in Culpeper Co., while Andrew and his known children seem to havelived in Madison Co. Because William Finks lived in Madison Co., thissuggests (but, granted, only suggests) that Andrew is slightly more likelyto have been William's father.

This suggestion is made more likely by two records in Madison Co. MadisonCo. marriage bond 292, dated 11 Feb. 1800, was for Simeon Wilhoite andPolley Finks. Bondsmen were Lewis Deer and William Finks. A letter from Andrew Finks consented to the marriage of his daughter, and was witnessed by the two bondsmen.

Page 297 of Madison Co. Will Book 2 has an indenture, dated 28 Dec. 1809, apprenticing Jabez West to Andrew Finks. The indenture was witnessed by William Finks, Jonas Blankenbaker and Joel Grayson.

I've wondered whether the name "Early" might not be a clue to the origin of Andrew Finks' wife. According to Madison Co. Will Book 1, pp. 123-124, an accounting of the estate of Joseph Early (in account with Adam Banks) was recorded 23 Feb. 1797. The accounting includes cash received in 1785 from Andrew Finks on behalf of John Blankenbaker.

By the way, the account quoted from the "History of the Hume Family" (full citation: William Everett Brockman, "Early American History: Hume and Allied Families" (Minneapolis, Minn: by author, 1926), p. 53) contains a few demonstrable errors. The marriage of William Finks & "Jane Hume" daughterof George Hume, was performed by minister Joshua Letherer 7/18 Oct. 1805 in Madison Co., VA. Because the marriage did not occur until 1805, the 1803 birthdate given for Early must be mistaken.

Similarly, the Hume book states, "Louisa Finks was married at the age of 46to Col. Robert Banks, of Madison, VA. She died of apoplexy early in theCivil War." However, the marriage of Louisa J. Finks, daughter of William Finks & Robert A. Banks, son of Gerard Banks, occurred in Madison Co., VA 26 April 1847. If she were in fact born in 1805, then she was only 42 when she was married. Thus, either the birthdate reported or the age at marriage (or both) must be in error.

In any case, given the advanced age at which Louisa married, I doubt thereare any living descendants of William Finks, assuming that the Hume book's statement is correct that "Early died while in college at Staunton, Va.,with typhoid fever."

Final note: As a magistrate of the Court of Madison County, William Finks certified that the 8 Oct. 1834 affidavit of John Finks attesting to thedeath of his father, Mark Finks, Jr. The affidavit is filed in the pension record of Mark Finks, Jr., at the National Archives.

>Does anyone know who this William Finks is?>>History of the Hume Family>>George Hume married Susannah Crigler, who> had by him ten children, the oldest of> whom was Jennie, who married her cousin> William Finks, in 1802. Mr. Finks was> older by some years than his wife, and was> a prosperous merchant in the village of> Madison Court House, Virginia. To this> union were born three children, Early, the> oldest was born in 1803, Louisa 1805, and> a third child born in 1807 died in the> first hours of its existence, as also did> the mother. William Finks started in a> "gig" across the mountains in 1807, to> take his motherless children to their> grandfather's home in Kentucky, he having> moved to that state and settled in Madison> County in 1802, a picture of the house> which he erected in 1803 is given in these> pages. The children remained in Kentucky> until Early was 16, and Louisa 14 years> old, when they again made the long trip> across the mountains to their old home in> Virginia. Early entered College in> Staunton, Virginia.>>(that's all I've downloaded on this branch so far)>>Cindy Crigler>

I've found some important additional information on William Finks, so am supplementing my earlier message.

>After pondering on it for a while, I concluded that William Finks must be>the son of Andrew and Sarah (--?--) Finks and grandson of Mark andElizabeth>(--?--) Finks, the putative immigrants.

However, as discussed below, a court record proves that Andrew did marryLucy Vawter, and that she was the mother of William. See William B. Newman, "Towles and Clark Families," Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., ____), p. 589. In this article, Newman discusses probatelitigation that required listing Vawter descendants. Newman states:"Frances [Towles], daughter of Stokeley and Ann [(Vallott) Towles], married Richard Vawter, whose will, dated March 1, 1803, named son-in-law Elijah Wilhoit, daughters Margaret Breedlove, Lucy Finks, Tabitha Rouse, Ann Vawter and Alpha Shelton. Frances Vawter's will, dated November 11, 1811, named daughters Alpha Shelton, Ann Vawter and Nancy Wilhoit. From the decree in Clark v. Towles it appears that Richard and John had two sons, John and Russell; that the former was living in 1845; that Russell married hiscousin, Mary Sparks, and died without issue; that the husbands of Margaret, Alpha, Ann and Tabitha were, respectively, John Breedlove, Robert Chilton [italicized in original], Philemon Vawter and Adam Rouse; and that Lucy,wife of Mark [sic] Finks, left nine children: Elbert, William and Paschal Finks, Tabitha, wife of Joel Grayson, Julia, wife of Elliot Wilhoit, Judith Wayman, Ann Broyles, Lucy, wife of Abner Berry, and Polly Wilhoit."

Although Newman calls Lucy Vawter's husband MARK Finks, this is demonstrablya mistake. The 11 Feb. 1800 marriage bond in Madison Co. for SimeonWilhoite and Polley Finks, bondsmen Lewis Deer and William Finks, contains a letter by ANDREW Finks for the marriage of his daughter, witnessed by Lewis Deer and William Finks. Similarly, the 14 March 1804 marriage in MadisonCo. of Tabby Finks and Joel Grayson identifies her as the daughter of ANDREW Finks.

The error is perhaps understandable. At the time of the suit Andrew Finksand Lucy (Vawter) Finks may have been dead. (I'm just speculating here).If so, the identity of her husband would have been a tangential matter,whereas the identity of her children, as prospective heirs, would have beenof the essence.

I think "Elbert" must be a misreading of "Elliott", who I have discussed in other messages.

Significantly (well, to me anyway; maybe not to anybody else), the list of children given by Newman is exactly identical to the tentative list I hadcome up with through analysis of census, deed, probate and marriage records.

Because Elliott was born between 1777 and 1779, and because he is named as a son of Lucy (Vawter) Finks, Sarah (--?--) Finks must have died shortly after the birth of Johannes (John). Perhaps (here I would stress that I am again speculating, without any evidence) it was a difficult birth and mother and child died shortly afterward. In any case, by 1779 Andrew Finks hadremarried Lucy Vawter, who was evidently was the mother of his remaining children.

>>I think this is also the William Finks who married 9 Dec. 1818 in Madison >Co. Ann Banks. The marriage record indicates they were widower & widow.>According to Mrs. P.W. Hiden, "Adam Banks of Stafford County", Genealogiesof Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, vol. I (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Pub. Co., ____), p. 104:"Gerard5 James Banks b. ___, m. in Orange Co. Jan. 17, 1805 Ann Davis, andd. prior to 1818 for on Dec. 9, 1818, his widow, Ann Banks, m. in MadisonCo. Wm. Finks. The division of the estate of Gerard5 J. Banks is in Madison records, W.B. 4, p. 42, Aug. 21, 1820, and shows that one lot fell to Wm.Finks and ann his wife, "formerly the relict of Gerard5 J. Banks," and the other to Linn5 Banks as guardian for Robt. Alexander Banks, "an infant of tender years." "Gen. Robt. A.6 Banks, b. 1806, d. at his home in Madison Feb. 1879, without issue; he m. (1) Louisa Finks, (2) Narcissa Long. He represented Madison Co. in the House of Delegates 1839-1847, was in the Convention of1850, and again in the House of Delegates 1874-75. He was a general in the Confederate Army and much honored by his neighbors."

>(I have a vague recollection that William Finks is living in 1850 in the >household of his married daughter, Louisa J. (Finks) Banks, but for some >reason am having trouble finding the record. Perhaps I just imagined it.)